Cross-Appointed Appointees

Juan Pablo Arab

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor of Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Transplant Hepatology, Clinical/Translational Research, Epidemiology in Alcohol-related Liver Disease and Metabolic dysfunction-associated Liver Disease, Liver Cancer, Cirrhosis

Reza Azarpazhooh

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Funmbi Babalola

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Type 1 Diabetes and Diabetes Complications. Disorders of Calcium and Bone Health. Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Skeletal Dysplasia

Rodrigo Bagur

Cross-Appointed AssociateProfessor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Outcomes, Cardiovascular Risk Assessment, Meta-analysis
Teaching: Thesis co-supervision for MSc

Ian Ball

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Trauma, End of Life Care, Organ Donation

Lillian Barra

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Rheumatoid arthritis, Systemic vasculitis, Cardiovascular disease, observational cohorts, Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, Immunoepidemiology, Autoantibodies, Immunopathogenesis

Mehmet A. Begen

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Healthcare operators management, scheduling, optimization, analytical modelling, data driven approaches, contract design and simulation

Phillip Blanchette

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Breast and Lung Cancer, cancer epidemiology and outcomes, population health

Jorge Burneo

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Neurosurgery, Epilepsy
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc

Craig Campbell

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Pediatric Clinical Research
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc

Christina Castellani

Cross-appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardiovascular Disease, Neurodevelopment, Mitochondrial DNA, Computational Genomics, Epigenomics, Trancriptomics, Complex Disease, Gene-Environment Interactions, Bioinformatics, Monozygotic Twins, Human Cohort analysis

Kate H. Choi

Associated Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Social determinants of health, population health, population studies, family inequalities, racial/ethnic inequality

Lauren Cipriano

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Care Management Science, Health Economics
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc

Kristin Clemens

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Endocrinology, Health Services Research, Quality of Care

Seth Climans

Assistant Professor, MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Neurology, Neuro-oncology

Andrea Cowan

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Nephrology, Mineral Bone Disease

Mark Daley

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Natural Computing, Computational Neuroscience & Neuroinformatics, Realtime analysis of biomedical data, Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems, Music Informatics, Theoretical Computer Science

Erkan Demirkaya

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Luc Dubois

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Patient Expectations, Patient-Based Decision Making

Sameer Elsayed

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Antimicrobial Resistance, Healthcare Quality

Rachel Forrester-Jones

Cross-Appointed Professor

Stephanie Frisbee

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardiovascular health and disease prevention, population health, stroke, cardiovascular disease risk factors, environmental health and epidemiology, behavioral health economics, health outcomes, health policy, perfluoroalkyl acids, integrated systems of health
Teaching: Not currently accepting new students

Facundo Garcia-Bournissen

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: pediatric clinical pharmacology, neglected diseases, global health, pediatric drug development, clinical trial design (especially for children and special populations such as breastfeeding women and pregnant women), population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

Amit Garg

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Kidney Donation
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD

Pallav Garg

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Interventional Cardiology, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, Outcomes Research, Cardiovascular Risk Assessment, Meta-analysis, Decision Analyses
Teaching: Thesis co-supervision for MSc

Jason Gilliland

Cross-Appointed Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Population Health, Children’s health, GIS applications for Environment & Health, Healthy Eating
Teaching: Thesis co-supervision for MSc

Noha Gomaa

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Chronic diseases and multimorbidity, life-course epidemiology, developmental origins of health and disease, biopsychosocial research
Teaching: Thesis co-supervision for MSc

Giuseppe Guaiana

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses, Pharmacoedpidemiology, Psychiatric Epidemiology

Jennifer Guthrie

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Infectious Diseases, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Clinical microbiology, Epidemiology

Stewart Harris

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Diabetes, Primary Care, Native Community Health
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD

Pingzhao Hu

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Deep learning algorithms for health, Statistical Genomics, Imaging Genetics, Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD students, Biostatistics Field of Study

Arsh Jain

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Nephrology

Vipul Jairath

Cross Appointed Professor/MD PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical trials, Development of Clinical Indices, Outcomes Research, Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis. Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Gastrointestinal bleeding.
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc or PhD

Abbas Jessani

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Barriesr to health care and oral health services in marginalized communities such as living with HIV/HCV, Refugees, Indigenous population and LGBTQ2S, global health, stigma and discrimination towards visible minorities, health service research, oral health service research and community based participatory research.

Philip Jones

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Trial Reporting, Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc

Tarun Katapally

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Digital Health, eHealth, mHealth, Precision Medicine, Health Services Research, Health Systems, Population Health Interventions, Indigenous Health, Global Health

Mohammad Qasim Khan

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Optimization of pre-, peri- and post-liver transplant cardiometabolic conditions, Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), Portal Hypertension

Reena Khanna

Associate Professor, MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Inflammatory bowel disease, randomized controlled trial, trial methodologies, systemic reviews, therapeutics, validation, outcome measurements

Anita Kothari

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Public Health Services Research and Knowledge Translation

Alejandro Lazo-Langner

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Determinants of Thromboembolic Disease, venous Thromboembolism, Clinical Trials, Systematic Reiews and Meta-analysis

Ana Lohmann

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Breast and endometrial cancer, cancer survivorship, late recurrence, liquid biopsy

Martha Louzada

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Arlene MacDougall

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Global mental health, recovery-oriented interventions for serious mental illness, transdisciplinary mental health system innovation
Teaching: Thesis co-supervision for MSc

Manuel Montero-Odasso

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Geriatric Medicine
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD

Flory Muanda

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Pharmacoepidemiology, drug safety, drug-drug interaction studies, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Maryam Nouri

Cross-Appointed Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, social determinants of health and global burden of Epilepsy

Naveen Poonai

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Acute paediatric pain, procedural sedation and analgesia, discharge education

Jessica Prodger

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: HIV-1, mucosal immunology, microbiome, HIV-1 reservoirs, global health

Melody Qu

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor /MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Lung Cancer, Lymphoma, Health economics, Clinical trials, Population studies

Jacques Raphael

Assistant Professor, MD

Research Interests / Specializations: 1) health service research to look at outcomes of patients in the real world and identify potential gaps in cancer care and 2) biomarkers studies to identify and validate blood-based and tumor biomarkers predictive of tumor response and prognostic of survival in patients with lung and breast cancer

George Rodrigues

Cross-Appointed Professor /MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Cancer
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD

Pavel S. Roshanov

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Reducing the risk of medical complications in the weeks to months after surgery, Reducing chronic inflammation in patients with kidney disease to prevent cardiovascular events, Large simple trials in hemodialysis

Marco De Tubino Scanavino

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Compulsive sexual behavior, sexual disorders, HIV risk behavior, sexual violence, risk behavior for violence, severe mental illness, education on psychiatry and neuroscience

Emil Schemitsch

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Management of patients with complex upper and lower extremity fractures, hip and knee reconstruction and computer assisted surgery.
Teaching: Thesis Co-Supervion for MSc

Rocio Sedano

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s Disease, Neurogastroenterology, Motility Disorders, Clinical trials

Michael Silverman

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Maxwell J. Smith

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Public Health Ethics, Infectious Disease Ethics, Health Equity and Social Justice, Public Health Policy

Luciano Sposato

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Stroke, dementia, atrial fibrillation, and heart disease

David Steven

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Epilepsy

Neville Suskin

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardiovascular Secondary Prevention & Rehabilitation, Cardiac Rehabiliatation EMR & Registry
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc

Anthony Tang

Cross-Appointed Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical research, Clinical Trials, Population Health

Jane Thornton

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Physical Activity, Chronic disease, Digital Technology, Outcome Measures, Primary Care, Sports Medicine

Janice Tijssen

Cross-Appointed Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Care of critically ill children across Ontario; Transport medicine; Paediatric cardiac arrest; Paediatric traumatic brain injury; Validation of administrative codes

Charles Weijer

Cross-Appointed Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Research Ethics; Cluster randomized trials; Controlled human infection models (CHIMs); Organ donation technologies
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD

Blayne Welk

Cross-Appointed Associate Professor/MD

Research Interests / Specializations: Using Administrative Data to Study Surgical Outcomes

Gregory Zaric

Cross-Appointed Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Economics, Health Policy
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD